Ethics for Breakfast presents Author of "The Beast Within" Neil Boyd Drugs and Violence: Public Health, Morality and the Relevance of Ethics   Neil Boyd will lead a discussion about ethical issues surrounding drugs and crime. Is it ethical, or scientifically correct, to continue to assert that there is any merit in the line that divides legal from illegal drugs? Is drug use solely an issue of public health? When does it become an issue of relevance for the state? Date:        Tuesday   Nov 14 2006      Time:        7:15-8:30 am Place:       BC Hydro - 2nd Floor Auditorium  333 Dunsmuir St (at Beatty)  Vancouver RSVP by email: rsvp@workplacecentre.org.com or phone: 604.685-6560  (Please RSVP by Monday Nov 13 we that we can make accurate catering arrangements.  Thank you.) Members $5.00 Guests     $8.00    ABOUT NEIL BOYD   Neil Boyd is a Professor and Associate Director of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, educated in psychology at the University of Western Ontario and in law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He is a previous Director of the School of Criminology and the author of five books: High Society: Legal and Illegal Drugs in Canada; The Last Dance: Murder in Canada; Gently into the Night: Aggression in Long Term Care; The Beast Within: why men are violent, and Big Sister: How extreme feminism has betrayed the fight for sexual equality; two textbooks, The Social Dimensions of Law, and Canadian Law: An Introduction (now in its 4th Edition), and many academic articles. He is a frequent media commentator on subjects related to criminology: specifically, drug law and policy and issues of criminal violence and homicide. He has written articles about drug markets, heroin treatment initiatives, injectable drug use, responding to the threats posed by homicide offenders, and the linkage between drug use and homicide. Neil has recently completed a study of the Eron mortgage fraud, and is currently conducting a community impact study of the NAOMI heroin prescription trial in Vancouver. He is also working on a book with Senator Larry Campbell, The Road Ahead: Drugs, Violence and Making our Communities Safer, to be published by Greystone/Douglas&McIntyre in 2007.

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